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Clinician Scientist @StrokeBern @inselgruppe Covert brain infarction | Anticoagulation | Precision medicine | Heart-Brain Family dad, 🇪🇺
May 10, 2023 21 tweets 12 min read
1/ Endovascular stroke treatment (EVT) is one of the biggest success stories of medicine!
In clinical reality, the question is no longer “Who to treat?” but: “Who should we NOT treat???”

A case-based tweetorial about futile recanalization …
#NeuroTwitter #SharedDecisionMaking 2/ 🧠💔Futile Recanalization (FR) 🧠💔 usually refers to very poor outcome (modified Rankin Scale 5–6) despite a technically successful intervention. It is a bit the elephant in the room in the modern thrombectomy era.